Cambridge Judge Business School
Cambridge Judge Business School
Cambridge Judge Business School, formerly known as the Judge Institute of Management Studies, is the business school of the University of Cambridge. Established in 1954 as Management Studies in the Engineering Department, in 1990 as Judge Institute for Management Studies, and in 2005 as Judge Business School. the School is a provider of management education and is consistently ranked as one of the world's leading business schools.[1][2] It is named after Sir Paul Judge, chief founding benefactor of the school.[3] The School is part of the University's Faculty of Business and Management, which is in turn part of the School of Technology.[4] Academic programmes at the School include:
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Master of Finance (MFin) Executive MBA MPhil Finance MPhil Innovation, Strategy & Organisation MPhil Management MPhil Management Science & Operations MPhil Technology Policy Management Studies (Undergraduate) Management of Technology and Innovation Executive Education Entrepreneurial Courses PhD
Students also join one of the historic Cambridge Colleges, which provides a social context for their work and an opportunity to meet students and academics from other disciplines. The School is situated on the site of the Old Addenbrooke's Site on Trumpington Street, near the University's Fitzwilliam Museum. Its colourful facade is a well-known landmark in the city. Reputation Cambridge is widely regarded as one of the top business schools in the world: its MBA program was recently ranked 4th in the UK, 10th in Europe and 33rd in the world by the The Economist.[6] It was also ranked 16th worldwide in the Financial Times Global MBA Rankings[7] and 5th among non-US one-year programs by Forbes magazine.[8] In the 2012 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report the school was sorted into the global top cluster (among 37 other schools) and ranked 10th in Europe.[9] In the field of marketing, the report lists the Cambridge MBA as the best European program and as the fourth best program in the world. The School is particularly strong in entrepreneurship and innovation management, and offers related courses and seminars via the Cambridge Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning.[10] It also has close ties with Cambridge Enterprise,[11] the university's technology transfer office, as well as the local high-tech cluster known as the Silicon Fen.
MBA Roughly 150 MBA students attend the 12 month programme each year. Admissions standards are high, with an average Graduate Management Admission Test score of 680.[12][13] The average age of students on the full time MBA is 29.6[12] and generally students come with extensive work experience in distinguished firms.[2] Currently 95% of students come from outside of the UK and app. 30% of students are women.[12][14] MBA students from Cambridge Judge Business School and Oxford's Sad Business School maintain a friendly rivalry and have numerous opportunities throughout the year to meet for athletic events and business conferences. The School markets this programme as "the Cambridge MBA". Executive MBA Cambridge Judge Business School launched their Executive MBA offering in 2008, with the first class joining the School in September 2009. The programme is targeted at senior executives and is taught over a 20 month period. Participants attend sixteen weekend sessions and three week-long blocks. As with other Executive MBAs the programme is intended for those who wish to continue working while studying towards the qualification. Master of Finance (MFin) The Master of Finance is a one year specialist finance course designed for people with at least two years' experience in the finance and banking world who wish to accelerate their career in finance. The course is designed to give students a rigorous grounding in the theory and practice of finance.[15][16] It combines a set of core courses that provide the theoretical and statistical foundations for a range of electives that cover the main areas of applied finance. There are three compulsory projects and one optional one, which help students to integrate theory and practice.[15][16] The other part of the course is the City Speaker Series, which is a weekly series of practitioner talks aimed at providing up to date financial knowledge and commentary from sector experts.